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Liberal Democrats accused of double standards over patents
Talkback Apparently the Liberal Democrats do have some IT related policies, they just don't know about them or choose to ignore them. These policies also don't appear on any official party website or even the affiliated Liberal Democrats Scientists and...
[June 24, 2005, 9:39]
Liberal Democrats accused of double standards over patents
News European politicians representing parties including the UK's Liberal Democrats have been accused of acting against party policy in a recent vote over the software patent directive. In a crucial vote at the JURI committee on Monday, MEPs from the...
[June 23, 2005, 16:00]
How the Democrats' win affects tech
News House Democrats cast 62 votes against the 2001 Patriot Act, but only three Republicans opposed it. But now that this week's elections have switched control of the House back to the Democrats — and they appear to have seized the Senate as well — the...
[November 10, 2006, 10:20]
Liberal Democrats accused of double standards over patents
Talkback Uh yeah, how exactly would the EU be abandoned? Its an advanced trade organisation overseaing trillions of pounds worth of commerce. Sure the UK could 'go it alone' but with around 2/3 are real trade being with EU countries then they could easily...
[June 24, 2005, 18:20]
Liberal Democrats accused of double standards over patents
Talkback I'll admit (anonymously) that I voted LibDem in the elections, and now which I had not. I liked the outcome but the Lib Dems are rubbish, they're so flaky when it comes to decisions. What a bunch of lily-livered pansies
[June 23, 2005, 18:30]
Liberal Democrats accused of double standards over patents
Talkback I would like to hear ASAP what the EU politicians will do now that once again it turns out that plenty of them are being seriously misinformed in ways that clearly effects the way they vote. It's my understanding that such misinformation with such...
[June 23, 2005, 22:16]
Liberal Democrats accused of double standards over patents
Talkback Well this shows that EU don't work. Solutiuon. Abandon EU now. In evey way say no to this corrupt goverment that more and more like a country called China.
[June 24, 2005, 11:01]
Liberal Democrats accused of double standards over patents
Talkback How do we "crash" the EU? Very simple. If the UK withdraws then the EU is finished. The €4bn hole we would kick in the EU budget would completely cripple the whole organisation. The CAP would have to go and there would be riots in France as the...
[June 24, 2005, 22:06]
Liberal Democrats accused of double standards over patents
Talkback Errr, all that needs to be done to make the EU work is to kick out company (sponsored) lobbiest and politicians who listen to such people. The only problem is how to accomplish that and maintain that.
[June 24, 2005, 23:56]
Liberal Democrats accused of double standards over patents
Talkback To state "that Liberal Democrats have behaved in a "schizophrenic" manner over the patent directive" only reveals his ignorance of the disease and discounts the struggle it is to live life every day as a schizophrenic.
[June 26, 2005, 21:31]
Liberal Democrats accused of double standards over patents
Talkback The EP is out of order by even considering sw patents at this point. The EC could not have included the CIID as an A-item, as it claims. Due to objections by representatives of member states. The EP needs to send this back to the EC until such time...
[June 27, 2005, 14:04]
Lib Dems call for data guardians
News The Liberal Democrats want to create 'data guardians', charged with protecting the information rights of the consumer and the citizen. The data-protection minister, currently Michael Wills MP, would have new powers to echo that independent advocacy...
[August 21, 2008, 9:17]
Election 2001: Fight isn't over for IR35
News The Liberal Democrats will keep up the fight against the government's controversial IR35 tax after the general election, and are hoping to change some of its most unpopular aspects. Both major opposition parties opposed the tax which came into...
[May 23, 2001, 17:21]
What the Obama presidency means for tech
News After a handful of Democrats joined Republicans to approve the Central America Free Trade Agreement in 2005, the 15 dissidents were hounded by their own party and by labour activists. On copyright, the conventional thinking is that Democrats are...
[November 6, 2008, 11:15]
Government overspends on IT by £1bn
News The Liberal Democrats have blasted the Government for overspending on IT projects by over £1bn in the last five years. The Liberal Democrats said that the Home Office had overspent on IT projects by £18.2m.
[May 11, 2007, 17:53]
Lib Dems to oppose Mandelson copyright powers
News The Liberal Democrats are to oppose a clause in the Digital Economy Bill that would let the business secretary amend copyright law without parliamentary debate. The Liberal Democrats are not opposed in principle to technical measures such as...
[December 8, 2009, 14:50]
Lib Dems criticise 'shambolic' DNA database
News The Liberal Democrats party has said it has evidence that the DNA database is not helping to solve crimes. The Liberal Democrats also highlighted findings that about 850,000 people on the DNA database have no criminal record, and that, since its...
[December 4, 2008, 6:30]
Labour wins tech policy poll
News While the tech industry rates Labour's manifesto e-commerce pledges above the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats, it has given it a vote of no-confidence for its digital policies overall. In a virtual poll at Internet World UK 2001, Labour's...
[June 7, 2001, 17:35]
HMRC tax-credit losses approach £10bn
News The cost of flaws in the UK's tax-credit system has risen to almost £10bn, according to the Liberal Democrats. The Liberal Democrats said the quarterly figures released by HM Revenue & Customs show that the government has failed to hit its target...
[May 23, 2008, 9:29]
Labour accused of hacking Lib Dem email
News A Labour Party employee hacked into the Liberal Democrats' email system, obtaining confidential policy information which was then leaked to the Guardian, according to a confidential Liberal Democrat memo.
[October 10, 2000, 13:03]
